Title 21: Food and Drugs
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/ PART 866 - IMMUNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY DEVICES
/ Subpart C - Microbiology Devices / § 866.2170 Automated colony counter.
§ 866.2170 Automated colony counter.
(a) Identification. An automated colony counter is a mechanical device intended for medical purposes to determine the number of bacterial colonies present on a bacteriological culture medium contained in a petri plate. The number of colonies counted is used in the diagnosis of disease as a measure of the degree of bacterial infection.
(b) Classification. Class I (general controls). The device is exempt from the premarket notification procedures in subpart E of part 807 of this chapter subject to the limitations in § 866.9.